Nice post Sci--I will concur that parents of ADHD children have more stress as I am one! Also, I think ADHD contributes to issues with STEM education the learning experience requires longer concentration times for kids (in my experience, n=1).

By the way, the link to SciAm points to page 2, you might want to change that.

It's nice to see the research confirming what I discovered bringing up ADHD kids: the meds are what make it possible to acquire good habits, but it's the habits that matter.

Mostly.

There's a point where ADHD gets so extreme that kids lose track of what they're doing between (literally) one step and another. Habits will get you through those only if you are doing something that is already habitual, otherwise the distractions are an unnavigable minefield. Fortunately,